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The Safety Lifecycle

5. Maintain & Improve

4. Installation & Physical Validation 2. Safety

Requirements Specification

1. Hazard or RiskAssessment

3. Design & Verification

Safety Lifecycle

Provides a roadmap for the implementation of Safety!

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The Design of Safety Systems

The design phase of a safety system includes three key steps:

1. Develop2. Evaluate3. Document

Safety Automation Builder is a FREE software tool from Rockwell Automation® that simplifies these three steps

Build a safer machine with Safety Automation Builder!

* Patent pending on the Safety Automation Builder software

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Safety Automation Builder

Safety Automation Builder is based on the global standard ISO 13849-1

Use Safety Automation Builder to: Layout machine hazards and access points Define safety functions and select safety

products Export data to SISTEMA for evaluation*

Outputs of Safety Automation Builder include: Bill of Material Conceptual safety layout drawings SISTEMA project file*

* Safety Automation Builder and SISTEMA tools must be used in conjunction with each other to provide this output

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How it Works

Safety Automation Builder guides users through the safety system development process and helps to select the necessary safeguards.

STEP 1: Basic project info Name Description Import machine layout image

STEP 2: Safety system layoutGraphically document: Hazards Physical guards Access points Safety zones Control panels

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How it Works

STEP 3: Hardware selection Define safety functions Select safety devices for each function

Inputs Logic Outputs

STEP 4: Circuit evaluation Safety Automation Builder creates

SISTEMA project file of all safety functions

SISTEMA evaluates Performance Level (PL) of each circuit and creates a report

STEP 5: Bill of Materials ProposalWorks™ generates a BOM with

pricing info

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Significant Time Savings

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Compared to traditional safety system design methodologies, Safety Automation Builder simplifies the process of:

Identifying required safety functions Selecting safety input, output and logic devices Calculating the achieved system performance level

per ISO 13849-1 Identifying and drawing potentially

hazardous access points Drawing hard and movable guarding Printing out machinery layout drawings

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The Complete Safety System Design and Evaluation Tool

Complete Safety System Layout Complete Bill of Materials Performance Level Evaluation

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Getting Started withSafety Automation Builder

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Learn more about Safety Automation Builder: Visit the Safety Resource Center

http://discover.rockwellautomation.com/safety

Review the Product Profile found on the Rockwell Automation® Literature Library

Publication # SAFETY-PP003_-EN-E

Start using Safety Automation Builder: Download from the Rockwell Automation® Safety

Resource Center: http://discover.rockwellautomation.com/safety

Order the Product Selection Toolbox™ DVD Publication PST-SG001_-EN-V (Rev. K / May 2013 and later)

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